Hello everyone :)As you may or may not be aware, I’m also part of the stable of bloggers to be found on Sciblogs. For the moment, I’ve decided to be lazy and rather than syndicating/double posting (which always requires a little extra work), I’m simpl…
Science
Nano ho-ho
In the spirit of Christmas, I’d like to share with you all the world’s smallest snowman.(Click on image for link to site)Credit: NPL siteThe snowman was developed by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory, and is a marvel of festivity-inspired nano-joll…
Introducing Shady, or, how to get a robot to do what a blind can
The last couple of days have felt particularly roboty.Why, you ask? Well, I shall be posting one some of the things that came across my tech-strewn desk, and I’ll introduce the mini-topic with this one. Shady.Cast your mind back to a hot, sunny day. …
PittConnect and online scientists
Ah, social networking for scientists. Hooray!PittCon, which describes itself self-effacingly as the “world’s annual premier Conference and Exposition on laboratory science”, has gone one step further than simply bringing together some 20,000 people …
World leaders, 20 years on and sorry
This is really quite interesting.(Click on link to go to website: once there, click on picture for slideshow)Greenpeace is running an ad campaign in Copenhagen airport, featuring world leaders who are 20 years older (‘though many look much more) and ap…
The best of Royal Society publishing - 350 years' worth!
So, this is seriously, seriously cool. 350 years’ worth of the Royal Society of London’s best published papers.(click on the picture to visit the site)To expand, (teehee), it’s actually an interactive, explorable timeline. And it’s been launched to c…
Wherefore the hammerhead?
Fantastic stuff, this. Well, for those of us who, when little and naturally curious about everything*, wondered why, exactly, it was that hammerheads had hammerheads. As it were.Scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini, Hawaii, USA (Pacific ocean) …
The LHC's first collisions
Woohoo! I couldn’t, personally, be more thrilled.No doubt, people who actually understand properly the physics and true awesomeness behind the LHC couldn’t be more thrilled either. Even more so than I.Because, * fanfare *, the first collisions in the …
The teapot effect, end of
So apparently, there’s something called the teapot effect. Or, rather, there was.No, it’s not what you might first imagine it is. At least, it’s not what I first imaged it was. Instead, it’s apparently the name used for the phenomenon whereby the sp…
Learning to use your new prehensile tail…
The obscure title is aimed at a friend who’s always sworn that, when it comes time to choose body modifications, he wants that prehensile tail.And now, according to some new research published in PNAS last week, he can learn to use it before he even ha…